The Surprising Benefit to Teen Virginity

In it, Glenn takes a look at a new, unique study from the U.S. Center for Disease Control (CDC) that examined a wide array of high school students’ health behaviors in light of their sexual activity (virginal, heterosexual active, and same-sex or bisexually active).

The results are telling.

As Glenn writes, “The virginal students rate significantly and consistently better in nearly all health-related behaviors and measures than their sexually active teens,” and “teens who have sexual contact with the same or both sexes have remarkably lower percentages of healthy behaviors overall than their heterosexually active peers.”

And those behaviors range from binge drinking to illegal drugs, from dating violence to even tanning beds!

And while Glenn points out “It’s difficult to determine from this CDC report alone just how these various measures are related to one another,” he does believe “the sexual choices and values our young people hold have real-life consequences far beyond sexuality itself.”

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Anonymous

More than 1 year ago

As several readers of the Federalist pointed out, Stanton seems to have a rather curious reading of this study. In many of the health-related categories, heterosexually-active students fared worse than LGBT students. Furthermore, for categories like being bullied, blaming LGBT students for experiencing bullying MORE than heterosexual students is a classic example of blaming the victim.

Yes, the results are telling. But not the way Stanton claims. I would request that Jim Daly actually read the study for himself.

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Jim Daly is a husband, father and President of Focus on the Family and host of its National Radio Hall of Fame broadcast. His blog, Daly Focus, is full of timely commentary and wisdom designed to help you navigate and understand today’s culture. His latest book is Marriage Done Right.